布拉德·威特文 卢屹译 These visionary African American activists were some of the most vocal agents for racial change. 這些有远见卓识的非裔美国活动家高声疾呼,推动种族间的变革。 Martin Luther King Jr. Widely recognized as the most prominent figure of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King ...
This inspirational sports drama tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in Major League Baseball. Breaking through racial barriers during a time of deep-seated segregation, Robinson's courage and talent paved the way for future generations of Black athletes....
When traveling African-American handyman Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) stops by a farm in rural Arizona, he is welcomed by a group of Roman Catholic nuns who have emigrated from Germany. Realizing that the farm needs a lot of work, Homer takes on a number of repair projects for the w...
Williams - the first African-American to join the American Institute of Architects. Image © J. Paul Getty Trust A little less than two years after the onset of a global pandemic, inclusion in the architecture profession is unfortunately still a limited conversation. A 2020 survey by the UK...
Barbara Johns and Beyond: Black Male Youth Activists, School Desegregation, and the Black Freedom Struggle in Virginia, 1951–1970doi:10.1353/hcy.2024.a938250VIRGINIAJOHNS, BarbaraAFRICAN American youthSCHOOL integrationAMERICAN civil rights movement...
A movement among African Americans originating in the 1960s and emphasizing racial pride and social equality through the creation of black political and cultural institutions. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...
A writer reflects on the greats of the games -- Dr. J, Jim Brown, Bill Russell and others -- and the roles they played during the journey into the American mainstream for blacks.
when the U.S.Supreme Courtrejected African Americancitizenshipclaims. TheDred Scott decisionstated that the country’s founders had viewed Blacks as soinferiorthat they had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” This ruling—by declaring unconstitutional theMissouri Compromise(1820)...
Black Codes were the numerous laws enacted in the states of the former Confederacy after the American Civil War that were intended to ensure the continuance of white supremacy. Enacted in 1865 and 1866, the laws had their roots in the slave codes that ha
many continued to believe that the speedy trial had been a cover-up for a larger conspiracy. King’s assassination, along with the killing ofMalcolm Xthree years earlier, radicalized many moderate African American activists, fueling the growth of the Black Power movement and the Black Panther Par...